Search Results: Authors starting with V from Antiquariat Banzhaf

Album with 52 photographs – each ca 220 x 280 mm – on black cardboard mounts showing clocks, mantelpieces, wall appliques, lanterns, chandeliers, bronzes and candelstands cast by the atelier of Henri Vian in Paris. Each photograph with numbers and dimensions of objects in the negativ. A number of plates with pencilled annotations on back of mounts, with numbering and sometimes dimensions of objects. Cont. calf, with an all over decoration of floral elements. Spine on five raised bands. Covers framed by double gilt fillets. Foot of spine stamped H. Vian / Paris. Folio (460 x 370 mm). Slightly rubbed, extremeties worn. Henri Vian (1860-1905), a bronze-caster active in the second half of the 19th century, was specialized in the production of bronzes, light fittings, chandeliers, chimney mantelpieces, ormolu and patinated-mounted vases always of very fine quality. The business, located at 5 rue de Thorigny in Paris (the Salé Mansion, now the Picasso Museum), was continued by Madame Vian after her… Read More

Le Massif du Mont-Blanc. Partie Sud (and) Partie Nord. Paris, J. Baudry, (1876). Two large folded chromolithographed maps (1030 x 1240 mm), dissected and mounted on cloth. Publisher's blue slip-case with gilt stamped title to front cover. 4to (215 x 132 mm). Slip-case slightly dust-soiled.
Splendid colour maps drawn at scale 1:40,000 by Viollet-le-Duc. For eight years between 1868 and 1876, he used his summer vacation to study and measure Mont Blanc, the greatest of European mountains. His first aim was the preparation of a complete and systematic map of the region under survey – a goal he achieved spectacularly with the production of a huge and stunning chromolithographic plan 'view' of the massif 'as if it had been photographed from an altitude of 10'000 meters'. Thanks to a graphical method using subtly graduated light and shade, he could produce a vivid representation of the configuration of the slopes, with its hollows and recesses, and the sharp and abrupt contour of the mountain peaks.… Read More

With 171 lithogr. plates of which 166 beautifully hand-coloured. (18), 78 pages ; (28) ; (13) ; (44) ; (25) leaves ; (6), 69 pages. Publisher's grey boards, black cloth spine, front cover with mounted printed yellow title shield. 4to (290 x 210 mm). Corners bumped, hinges shaken and covers a bit dust-soiled.
Nissen ZBI 3240 ; Horn-Schenkling 17452. First and only edition, a rare monograph on European butterflies, the plates beautifully coloured. Together with the prospectus to the work, a booklet with 12 pages, loosely laid in